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Ecuador straddles the Equator, from which it takes its name, and has an area of 256,370 square kilometers. Its capital city is Quito, which was declared a World Heritage Site by UNESCO in the 1970s for having the best preserved and least altered historic center in Latin America.The country's largest city is Guayaquil. The historic center of Cuenca, the third largest city in the country, was also declared a World Heritage Site in 1999, for being an outstanding example of a planned inland Spanish style colonial city in the Americas.Ecuador is also home despite its size to a great variety of species, many of them endemic, like those of the Galápagos islands. This species diversity makes Ecuador one of the seventeen megadiverse countries in the world.The new constitution of 2008 is the first in the world to recognize legally enforceable Rights of Nature, or ecosystem rights.SEE YOU LATER.
The majority of the Ecuadorian population is mestizo, a mixture of both European and Amerindian ancestry, and muc h like their ancestry, the national culture is also a blend of these two sources, along with influences from slaves from Africa. 95% of Ecuadorians are Roman catholic, although their Christian beliefs are mixed with ancient indigenous customs.
Ecuador can be split up into three parts, geographically; the coast,the east; which includes the Amazonic region). The Galapagos islands, or Archipiélago of COLON also belong to Ecuador.
There is tension and dislike between the residents of QUITO and GUATAQUIL. Additionally, there is centralism in these two cities, so people from other provinces also tend to dislike its residents. Furthermore, due to the at times extreme cultural difference between the Coast and the Sierra, there is a general dislike between those two regions that traces back to prehispanic times.
FLAG OF EQUATOR
Ecuador straddles the Equator, from which it takes its name, and has an area of 256,370 square kilometers. Its capital city is Quito, which was declared a World Heritage Site by UNESCO in the 1970s for having the best preserved and least altered historic center in Latin America.The country's largest city is Guayaquil. The historic center of Cuenca, the third largest city in the country, was also declared a World Heritage Site in 1999, for being an outstanding example of a planned inland Spanish style colonial city in the Americas.Ecuador is also home despite its size to a great variety of species, many of them endemic, like those of the Galápagos islands. This species diversity makes Ecuador one of the seventeen megadiverse countries in the world.The new constitution of 2008 is the first in the world to recognize legally enforceable Rights of Nature, or ecosystem rights.SEE YOU LATER.
The majority of the Ecuadorian population is mestizo, a mixture of both European and Amerindian ancestry, and muc h like their ancestry, the national culture is also a blend of these two sources, along with influences from slaves from Africa. 95% of Ecuadorians are Roman catholic, although their Christian beliefs are mixed with ancient indigenous customs.
Ecuador can be split up into three parts, geographically; the coast,the east; which includes the Amazonic region). The Galapagos islands, or Archipiélago of COLON also belong to Ecuador.
There is tension and dislike between the residents of QUITO and GUATAQUIL. Additionally, there is centralism in these two cities, so people from other provinces also tend to dislike its residents. Furthermore, due to the at times extreme cultural difference between the Coast and the Sierra, there is a general dislike between those two regions that traces back to prehispanic times.